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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Is George W. Bush Coming Back – Romney Confuses ‘Sikh’ with ‘Sheik’

It’s Okay Though – Campaign Says He Was Tired

One thing that
American had hoped was over when George W. Bush left office was the
confusion of the President and his inability to speak plain, ordinary sentence and
even express basic ideas. After all Mitt
Romney for all his faults has not one but two degrees from Harvard. (Of course Mr. Bush went to Yale, but that’s
another story.)

So it is with some
dismay that we learn that Mr. Romney in trying to express sympathy for the
recent murder/massacre of Sikhs in Wisconsincalled
them Sheiks instead.

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa
— Mitt Romney mistakenly confused the words “Sikh” and “sheik” at a fundraiser
here Tuesday night when he offered his condolences to the victims of last
weekend’s shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin.

The presumptive
Republican presidential nominee correctly spoke of the Sikh religion earlier in
the day when he observed a moment of silence at a campaign event in Illinois. But at the Iowa fundraiser, he
instead talked about the “sheik temple” and the “sheik people.” Sheik is an
Arabic honorific, whereas Sikh is a religion with roots in South
Asia.

The campaign was quick to explain, Mr. Romney wasn’t
confused, he was tired.

Romney
spokesman Rick Gorka said the candidate “mispronounced similar sounding words,”
noting that he was clearly referring to the Wisconsin shooting and not trying to offend
people of Sikh faith.

Gorka
also pointed out that the comment came at the end of a long day of campaigning.
Romney left his New Hampshire home at 7 a.m. and traveled between three states,
holding three events and taping an interview before he took to the microphone
at the evening finance reception in West
Des Moines.

Of course, what was making him tired was (A) raising
all that money

The
event raised between $1.8 million to $2 million. Romney’s Iowa campaign
co-chairman, David Oman, said it was “the largest and most successful
presidential fundraiser we have ever had in the history of the state of Iowa.”

And (B) criticizing President Obama for spending too much
time raising money.

Apparently no harm was done to the campaign by the
gaffe of Mr. Romney because Sikhs, not being Iowa millionaires, were not invited to the
fund raiser.